Xanthe Alexis, Claire Kelly, & Racyne Parker

Xanthe Alexis:

Born near Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, Alexis spent much of her early youth in Michigan, where she grew up steeped in mysticism. At 15, she relocated to Colorado; at 19, she became pregnant with her first child; and at 20, she lost her sister to a heart defect. Those tumultuous years helped crystallize both Alexis’s need to create and her gift for connection, which led her to pursue a life centered around helping others through language and music. After opening a healing center with her mother, Alexis released her critically lauded debut, ‘Time of War,’ in 2016. Hailed as “arresting” and “intimate” by the Colorado Springs Independent, the album garnered a best of 2017 award from Roots Music Report, earned Alexis dates everywhere from Folk Alliance to

Americanafest, and helped her land a three-week residency at NYC art collective the Mothership. Longing for a change after more than a decade of touring the US and Europe by car and van, Alexis eventually traded in the road for the rails, supporting the album with a series of whirlwind tours that crisscrossed the western United States by train.

Claire Kelly:

Americana singer/songstress and Midwest native, Claire Kelly, made the move to Nashville in 2016 to pursue her music and songwriting career full time. Since then she’s toured internationally, had a song placed on an ABC Network primetime television show and recently won a songwriting contest through the world famous Bluebird Cafe. Nashville has quickly become home. In 2020 she was named a finalist for both The Kerrville Folk Festival “Grassy Hill New Folk Songwriting Competition” and the “Songwriter Serenade” songwriting contest in La Grange, TX.

In the past couple of years, she’s opened up for acts like Colbie Caillat, Anderson East and 2019 American Idol winner, Maddie Popee. Claire Kelly has also performed at festivals across the states such as Milwaukee’s Summerfest, The Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival, The Lights Fest, Steel Bridge Song Fest and Mile of Music.

Always writing from the heart, the singer, songwriter and self proclaimed optimist’s latest project, “The Scenic Route” speaks to life’s unexpected twists and turns and finding beauty in the detours.

Racyne Parker:

With modern folk, country, and indie influences, singer-songwriter Racyne Parker’s lyrical delivery and contemporary style fit in well on playlists next to Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift, Maggie Rogers, and Miranda Lambert.